Hitting the books ... and opponents

FAMU freshman puts in work on field, in classroom

9:55 AM,
Oct. 12, 2013

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By the time linebacker Curtis Alexander got to his junior year at East Gadsden High School, some of the players who started their high school careers with him were no longer on the football team. They became academic casualties and were never heard from again.

Alexander took notice.

"I didn't want that to be me, so I started studying," said Alexander, now a freshman linebacker at FAMU. "You have to have the grades to go to college, so I decided that I was going to get my work done and have a chance of playing college football." ...